Virginian-Pilot editorial board is in La-La land!

The Virginian-Pilot editorial board must consist of entry-level journalists. It appears that the one-issue bunch settled on transportation and a gas tax as the overriding contention for candidate endorsement. In the same game with different names, the unseasoned staff, with two exceptions of slam-dunk Republicans, settled on tax drooling Democrats.

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I was made aware that Mr. “Pat Murphy” was afforded an opportunity to post a guest commentary on a local Democratic orientated blog which disclaims any official Democratic Party standing. In that explanation, Murphy details the events and reasons he tendered his resignation as a Virginia News Source participant. The purpose of this critique is to clarify the portion of his remarks as they relate to my participation.

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Will the Norfolk Light Rail be extended from Newtown Road to the oceanfront? The answer to that question depends on many variables. Those entire variations hinge on whether the public is afforded a referendum, the result of the referendum, and whether the Virginia Beach City Council accepts the result.

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I can imagine what Virginia Beach light rail advocates are saying right about now after reading the editorial title. “Where is this going?”

Urbanization that includes rapid transit can, in the long run, lead to undesirable consequences.  One can look at a large city like New York or a relatively small one like Gresham, Oregon.

Gresham, a council-manager form of government, population 100,000 lies to the east of Portland.  It is the fourth largest city in Oregon.  Gresham is serviced with eight of 27 stations of metropolitan Portland’s MAX Blue Line.  The Blue Line was opened in 1986.

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